A new interview
Hadrien Gardeur of Feedbooks is intervewing several of their self-published writers for his blog. My contribution is available here.
Wallace Stevens on difficulty in poetry
‘Sometimes, when I am writing a thing, it is complete in my own mind; I write it in my own way and don’t care what happens. I don’t mean to...
September
Cool weather and mellow light – my mind returns to the maple leaves my parents would rake to the roadside and eventually burn, no antipollution by-laws back then, returns also...
Rediscovering Crystal
Absolutely my favourite narrative environment designer, Crystal is someone I’ve known since she’d crawl barefoot under my dining room table in a gorgeous jewel of a dress handsewn by her...
Cocoanut Grove
Cocoanut Grove, one of Ron Slate’s recently published poems, appears in today’s Washington Post, where he writes: I found a reason to return to the story after reading Adam Zagajewski’s...
Cosmic mysteries
So I went into Cologne today to attend a meditation workshop, an all-day event which had me gibbering by lunchtime – not quite what meditation is supposed to do for...
Locus novus
An interesting place to be. Try Aimee Bender’s Hotel Rot first. This is the direction I might take if I were twenty years younger. Might anyway, who knows?
Clifford Ross redux
A few excerpts from an interview with photographer Clifford Ross, conducted by novelist A. M. Homes: A.M.H. I would love to hear you talk a bit about what music does...
A lot more competition for eyeballs
Got to admit, this is one hell of a good reason to buy an ereader: Electronic readers like the Kindle are going to have a huge impact. This will mostly...
Life-affirming contradictions
Hurricane II* Photographer Clifford Ross on Wave Music: Which brings me to a second event that shaped my path in artmaking, and more or less codified the first experience. I...
Hyphenhation
As some of my email buddies already know, I’ve come to the stage in editing when I check my MS obsessively, one feature at a time. There’s probably no more...
Be faithful to your obsessions
‘My advice to anyone in any field is to be faithful to your obsessions. Identify them and be faithful to them, let them guide you like a sleepwalker.’J.G. Ballard